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MACHINE FR STRETHING AND WINDING ON WOVEN FABRICS, &G.

Patented Nov. 18, 1884.

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JOAH LODGE, OF HUDDEBSFIEL'D, AND MARK OLDBOYD,` OF DEVSBURY,

COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR STRETCHNG AND WlNDlNG-ON WOVEN FAB'ilCS. dc.

:LLLlCE-XCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,081, datedNovember 18, 1884. Application tiledFcbruai-y 23, 1884. (No model.)Patented in England October 13, 1881, No. 4.465.

To @ZZ whom it may OOILGGI'IL: attendants, after which it is cuttled bythe 0r- Be it known that we, JOAH LODGE, of Huddinary cuttlingapparatus.

derstield, and MARK OLDROYD, of Dewsbury, l In order that our inventionmaybe fully unboth in the county of York, England, and citij derstood,we herein give reference to the ac- 5 zens of the Kingdom of GreatBritain, have companying sheets of drawings illustrative 55 jointlyinvented certain Improvements in Mai thereof. chines for Stretching andWinding-On Voven Figure l is a side elevation ofthe machine, FabritsSie., of which the followingis a speciand Fig. 2 is a plan viewtliereof.Fig. Sshows icatioa 1 the opposite side to Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a View 1oThis invention has special reference to the i of the driving end of themachine, and Fig. 5 6o finishing of woven fabrics, the principal obis acrosssection.

ject ofthe invention being to stretch the fab- A :is the frame-work ofthe machine, and B ric, both in length and width, while it is passi Bare two endless chains, which pass over the ing through the machine. ipulleys C C O2 O3, which are carried by the 15 With respect to woolenfabrics, the several g shafts D and E, on( which they are splined. 65processes of blowing, boiling, or steaming l These chains rest and slidein grooved strips have hitherto been done by winding the said B B',which have pendent nuts c c and a2, fabric upon a roller or cylinder,and in order through which pass sciewthreaded shafts F, that the clothmight be wound upon the said F', and F2, which are journaled in theina-in 2o rolleror cylinder evenly one or more attend- I frame and bearworin-wheels G, which mesh 7o ants have been employed to open andstretch I with worms H on a shaft, J. The shafts F F the twisted clothto its proper width during I Fihave right and left screws ontheir'opposite the process of winding-on, and as the cloth Iends, androtation of shaft J in one direction was frequently saturated withboiling water sets the strips Band the chains B in or closer 25 therewas some difficulty in handling it. l together, while its rotation inthe opposite di- 75 Our invention seeks to obviate these diffil rectionsets them out, or farther apart. culties; 'and it consists, partly, in acombina In order that the pulleys Cz (l3 may movein tion of the endlesscarrying-chains provided and out with the chains, -we provide the nuts cwith pins and their bearing-pulleys with the with forked branches b2 toengage circumfertake-up cylinder, the cylinder or beam which entialgrooves in the bosses ot' the pulleys. 8o receives the fabric, and theiroperative .or At the other end of the machine we provide a drivingmechanism, whereby the take-up cylmeans whereby the pulleys O O' andchains inder, which is arranged close to the pins, l may be moved inalittleindcpendently ofthe takes the fabric the moment it leaves thepins, l strips B'. rlhis comprises clutch-levers K, and the fabric hasno opportunity to shrink (see at right of Fig. 5,) the inner ends of 85back. which are hinged to nuts a,engaged by screw- It also consists,partly, in the mechanism, i shaft F as fulcruins, while the leversengage which will be hereinafter described,for mang circumferentialgrooves in the bosses of the l taining a uniform peripheral speed ofthecylpulleys.

4o inder or beam upon which the fabricis wound; The object of shiftingthe chains and pulleys 9o partly in the combination of partsor elementsin and out is to suit them to fabrics of dif# of mechanism whereby theendless chains are I ferent widths, and by means of the independspreadapart, and partly in the construction i ent movement of pulleys O C,effected by of the steaming apparatus arranged underthe j levers K, thechains may be brought a little 45 passing fabric, all as will be fullyhereinafter ,i closer together at the receiving end of the ma- 95described, and defined in thc claims.4 lhchine, so as to stretch thefabric laterally as The machine may also be used for distend# I thechains spread in moving forward. The

ing the cloth and removing the washing and I chains are provided withpins, and the cloth, milling creases therefrom, the cloth being fed ibeing fed thereto and properly stretched, is

5o to the chains and beaten with sticks by the i taken up by the rollerL, from which it passes roo to the plain or perforated cylinder M andwound thereon, this cylinder being turned by means of the friction-diskN, working in con'- taet with the plate N', mounted on the end of theshaft of the cylinder. The cylinder is mounted in the vertical bearingsO,which are capable of sliding up and down the framework, and arecounterbalanced by weights P acting through the segment and rack S. Asthe roll of cloth upon the cylinder M increases in diameter, thecylinder rises and the plate N' rises along with it, and thefriction-disk N op crates at a greater distance from the center of p thesaid plate, which consequently revolves slowly, and so compensates forthe increased length of cloth taken up atl each revolution. The cloth isthus constantly traveling on the chains at a uniform speed. Thendesirable, the taking-up roller may be caused to travel faster than thechain-pulleys. and so stretch the cloth in length as well as in width.This may be effected by increasing the diameter of the disk N slightly.As this engages only by friction, it will slip if the strain becomes toogreat.

lt willbe observed that the delivery end of the chain is very close tothe taking-up roller L, by which means the fabric has no sooner left thepins ofthe endless chain than it is seized hold of by the said roller L.Consequently the fabric which hasj ust been stretched cannot shrinkback, but will be wound upon the roller in its distended state. Ifrequired, a trough, V, containing a perforated steampipe, W', may beemployed so as to steam the fabric. The trough V has sliding covers V',which may be moved (see Fig. 2) so as to expose more or less of theperforated steampipe under the moving fabric. The pipe W' connects witha steam-generator or other source of supply.

This construction of machine may be used with great advantage forremoving the washing and milling creases from the cloth, and this isdone by means of sticks or beaters used by the workmen, who beatthc'eloth while in its distcndcd state, after which it is enttled byordinary cuttling apparatus.

The machine is driven as follows: l and 2 are fast and loose pulleys, onthe shaft of which is a toothed pinion, 3, gearing Vwith a wheel, 4, ona shaft, 5. On the same end of the shaft 5 is a pinion, G, which gearswith a toothed wheel, 7, mounted on the shaft D, which carries theprincipal chain pulleys. The wheel 7 gears with a wheel, 8, on the shaftof the taking-up roller. ries a bevelwheel, 9, which gears with anotherbevel-wheel, 10, and drives the vertical shaft 1i and frictiondisk N. Ahand-wheel and screw, T, are provided to regulate the pressure exertedby the disk N upon the pl ate The shaft 5 also car- N', and the plate issupported at the back by the pulleys a, which keep it perfectly true andprevent the shaft from being strained. The cylinder M is mounted inbearings or centers at its ends, similar tolathe-centcrs, and itmay beremoved by ruiming back one center (at the right in Fig. 4) through themedium of a rack and pinion, b. Over the chains Bat the 7o feeding endof the machine are arranged brushwheels c. (Best shown in Figs. land 2.)The fabric passes in under these brush-wheels, and they serve to pressthe former down upon the pins on the chains. They are not driven bygears, but are revolved by the moving fabric. Having thus described ourinvention, we claim l. The combination of the endless chains B,

4provided with pins, and their bearing-pulleys, 8o

with the talle-up cylinder L, arranged close to the pins on the endlesschains, the cylinder M, and mechanism, substantially as described, fordriving the said chains and cylinders, all arranged to operatesubstantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cylinder M, mounted in bearings capable ofplaying vertically, with the disk or plate N', mounted on the axis ot'said cylinder M, the driving fric- 9o tion-wheel N, and mechanism,substantially as described, for driving said friction-wheel N wherebythe peripheral speed of the cylinder M is maintained uniform, for thepurposes set forth.

8. The combination of the endless chains, the ehain-pulleysGand C' andtheir shaftand the grooved strips B', provided with nuts a.' ai, withthe screw-shafts F F' F", means, substantially as described. foroperating said Ioo screw-shafts, and the clutch-levers K, pivoted tothenuts c',"engaged by shaft F, and constructed to engage circumferentialgrooves inv the pulleys C C', substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

4. The combination, with the endless chains and mechanism for carryingthem, substantially as described, of the trough V, provided withsliding` covers V', as shown, saidtroughs arranged below said chains,andthe perforated I 1o steam-pipe XV, arranged in said trough,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JOAl-I LODGE. M ARK OLDROYD.

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C. XV. XVHiTMAN, Il. S. Consular Agent.

Trios. H. BARRoN, Olcrlt to ilfessrs. Tasrer it' Crossley, Patent,fig/cats, l/Iafrkct Place, Huddersfield.

